Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols just launched an opposite-field home run off Nationals pitcher Jordan Zimmermann. It was his 400th career long-ball.

Pujols is the 47th player to reach that feat and the third-youngest in baseball history, behind only Eddie Matthews and Alex Rodriguez. He is a .332/.426/.625 career hitter and has managed at least 30 home runs over his first 10 major league seasons.

If “El Hombre” continues to crush opposing pitching and Joey Votto shows any kind of letup, he might even win baseball’s first Triple Crown since 1967.

But, uh, SI’s Tom Verducci still thinks Josh Hamilton is the “best player in baseball.”

These 9 or 10 years have gone by quickly… The 300th did not seem like it happened too long ago. Wasn’t it early in the ’08 season? Congrats’, Albert. Now stop it.
Obligatory comment about Mannywood –
*Manny still has the best swing in baseball. Much cooler to watch his at-bats than Albert’s.
*And if Josh Hamilton can stay healthy, he’s going to be (finally) get a chance maybe to show he could be one of the best all-around players in the game even though it would be disrespectful to say such a thing before Albert Pujols retires. I really hate when I have to dislike a guy on the basis that he is taking away chances for other cool players to be the best. Sorry, Albert.
Stay healthy, Josh!

I guess you’d really have to be a juiceball freak to give a crap about any MLB record broken in the last 15 years. Maybe he’s not juicing, but it doesn’t matter whether you’re clean or dirty. For true sports fans, it is all tainted and MLB is irrelevant, from juicing to the lack of a real commissioner, baseball is a joke,

It took several years for me to even realize that Pujols was such a funny name. I guess I didn’t really think too much about the sound of his name, even though I’d said it aloud many times. But then I was having a conversation about him near my sister, and she was like, “Did you just say poo holes?” And now my world will never be the same.